Top Security Startups in 2024

Secure Code Warrior is an innovative platform that will change how companies identify, use and train security talent in their development communities. It allows an organisation to measure, benchmark and improve secure coding skills of both in­house and outsourced developers. It uses game­based coding challenges to assess the developers in their preferred coding language, provides positive reinforcement to keep them engaged, and creates healthy competition between developers and teams to foster a security culture.

Belfry is building modern software for the security guard services industry - helping companies scale their businesses by simplifying & automating workforce management.

Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. Some of our customers include: Target, checkout.com, coinbase and Yahoo! just to name a few. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open source project is Fingerprint (16K stars on GitHub). We have raised $44M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb), Nexus VP (previously invested in Postman, Hasura) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle). Our highly-talented staff have: attended a top 10 US university, extensive startup experience, been finalists in international competitions, and worked at and with well-known tech companies. See what it is like from our Glassdoor reviews.

Privacy is possible. Signal Messenger makes it easy. At Signal, our goal is to develop open source privacy technology that protects privacy rights, promotes free expression and enables secure global communication. We believe that private messaging should be simple and ubiquitous. Signal combines state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption with the features that users expect in a modern messaging application. Millions of people use Signal every day to speak freely, and a growing list of organizations have integrated the open source Signal Protocol into messaging platforms that support billions of users.

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India based cyber security company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform that helps organizations become proactively secure. The Pentest Platform uncovers more than 30,000+ vulnerabilities for its customers every month, saving its customers millions of dollars in potential loss and thousands of developer hours. The company has earned several accolades including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security (2017), one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to some of the well-known brands like Muthoot Finance, NIIT, Goldcast, ITC & more. We’ve been awarded by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi, Govt. of China & Govt. of France for our security solution Astra. After having a solid industry backing, investor support & proven business model we are now looking to build our A-Team in India. Astra in media 1. yourstory.com/2018/01/duos-startup-awarded-pm-narendra-modi-french-government 2. vod.ndtvhop.com/hopdmx/mp4/0e29dbb2_4175_1610_hop_hopstart_merge_51192.mp4

We are a platform that makes it easy for developers to adopt security in their CI/CD pipelines and deliver secure applications, similar to what Synk did for open-source software components. We enable developers to ensure data is always accessed (via APIs) in a secure & authorized manner.

Bureau is a first-of-its-kind trust network that delivers unprecedented trust and security to businesses and consumers. Think of us as a one-stop platform that helps businesses automate their decisions, prevent fraud, and power seamless user experiences. With Bureau, onboarding good customers, starting a new e-commerce business, setting up a gaming company and transacting in cryptocurrencies is as easy as shopping on Amazon. Bureau provides an accurate and comprehensive picture of each of your customers, so that you can confidently transact without fear of fraud. The ramifications of online fraud can be devastating for both businesses and the consumers they serve. Businesses add more friction points which leads to a frustrating user experience for consumers which in turn leads to lower conversions and more dropouts. It’s a vicious cycle. We believe that good customers should never be made to jump through verification hoops. We make it easy for companies to remove friction and serve their customers, while keeping bad actors out. Our platform takes the complexity out of identity verification and can easily be integrated with your backend. By combining ease of integration with a depth of functionality, we are able to provide a solution that can overcome the challenges of sophisticated online frauds. Whether you are a big fintech firm or a small e-commerce startup, our solution simplifies identity verification and fraud prevention so that you can focus on what matters: growth.

ActivTrak is a free cloud-based employee monitoring service. By tracking application and web usage, it allows you to answer the question - "Who's doing what and for how long."

Our company was established to develop IT security tools with event log collection solutions being the primary focus. Using our products customers can build a secure, flexible and reliable log infrastructure that satisfies the highest IT requirements of any organization and enables them to achieve regulatory compliance, easily identify security risks and policy breaches or analyze operational problems. We operate as a remote-only company with a team of 50+ members across the globe and it is our belief that in a modern era this model is better suited for our customers and us worldwide in order to deliver the best possible results. We have a passion for everything related to logging and IT security. While we have a strong background in Unix systems, trying to remain platform neutral is very important for us and our enterprise customers as well. Our experts have worked many years in the IT security industry in different countries and have served dozens of customers in multiple sectors such as financial, government and industrial sectors.